Brilliant article. The best way to explain a strange feature like a monad is to list out programming situations to which monads are a good solution. In the sam

Brilliant article. The best way to explain a strange feature like a monad is to list out programming situations to which monads are a good solution. In the same vein, I finally understood what Lisp macros are for, from a similar article explaining in what programmatic situation you can benefit from writing a macro: [1] [1] http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html